Book record
Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido
Raúl Zurita
Translated from Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky
Raúl Zurita's Song for His Disappeared Love, translated by Daniel Borzutzky, is a devastating Chilean work where love poetry and political disappearance become inseparable. The title already carries the unbearable fusion: a song, a beloved, an absence produced not by ordinary loss but by historical violence. Zurita's poetry often makes the nation a body and the body a landscape of trauma, and this book belongs to that immense project. Borzutzky's translation preserves the raw force and chant-like pressure of the work, allowing the English to grieve without becoming ornamental. I would recommend this to readers who want to understand how lyric address can become an act of mourning for the disappeared. The poem does not restore what was taken. It refuses to let the taking become silence. Song here is not consolation. It is witness, wound, and insistence.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Action Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9780979975578